I'm asking a question here and I hope this isn't a stuipd question because I've looked around for the answer for awhile and couldn't find the answer to my question.
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The story goes that Jobs and Woz were rushing to get the incorporation paperwork in, and couldn't think of a name. Jobs hit on Apple because he used to work in an apple orchard.
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Originally posted by itai195:
The story goes that Jobs and Woz were rushing to get the incorporation paperwork in, and couldn't think of a name. Jobs hit on Appl…
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Originally posted by itai195:
The story goes that Jobs and Woz were rushing to get the incorporation paperwork in, and couldn't think of a name. Jobs hit on Appl…
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Originally posted by soul searching:
I thought it was because Jobs is a big Beatles fan and that's why he chose Apple. No idea why they chose Macintosh though.
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The is from an Apple history site I found (doesn't mean it's right)
Apple - favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and …
a little deeper...I am sure one reason is because apple starts with an A...apple had a statement recently about being in front of atari in the phone book...
i think jobs has an ob…
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Originally posted by Matt OS X:
I'm wondering why or how did "Apple" named in 1984 when it started? Any reason why? How did it come up with this name Apple and…
Very informative so far but different stories or beliefs of how it started with "Apple."
Is there any links that explains the true story about Jobs named it Apple?
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Originally posted by Matt OS X:
Very informative so far but different stories or beliefs of how it started with "Apple."
Is there any links that explains the tru…
Yeah, the most consistent story seems to be that the three Apple Founders (Jobs, Wozniak, and Wayne) came up with a number of other more conventional names -- things with -tron or …
This doesn't have to do with why they picked the name, but this is a nice quote I've seen attributed to Jean-Louis Gass�e on the logo (which is somewhat related):
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For refference, the fruit Adam and Eve ate was the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. Do you know good and evil by eating Apples? Didn't think so.
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Originally posted by Ghoser777:
I thought the story was that taking a bite from an apple was suppose to be symbolic of gaining knowledge (think bible reference to…
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Originally posted by nate_02:
The is from an Apple history site I found (doesn't mean it's right)
Apple - favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three mon…